They were considerably
smaller than II, and III but were still of sufficient size to kill many people
each day. The area was cordoned off with barbed wire. Branches of leaves were
woven thickly into the wire to deaden noises and shield the crematoria and gas
chambers from view. The first view is of the path leading to Krematorium V that
began operations on April 4, 1943. It had a cremation capacity of 768 corpses
in a 24-hour period. The ruins of the structure are at the end of the path.
Scrolling around to the left you see the entirety of the Little Wood on the
Krematorium V side. People were either brought here by truck or were forced
to walk about a mile to what has become known as "The Little Wood";
for what they had been told was a disinfecting shower and then work. But this
was simply another brutal joke. What the Nazis really meant by disinfection
was cleansing the world of what they considered the “lower breeds of mankind".